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December 28, 2012, 12:25 PM

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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
RIM's First Patent Payment to Nokia: $65 Million  —  When Research In Motion settled its patent dispute with Nokia last week, the company agreed to make a “one-time payment and on-going payments” to its Finnish adversary.  But the size of those payments wasn't disclosed, and the terms of the deal kept confidential.
Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed:
How Anybody Can Secretly Save Your Snapchat Videos Forever  —  The videos you send through Snapchat and Poke are supposed to disappear in 10 seconds or less.  Except a security flaw makes it easy to save them forever — without the sender ever knowing.  —  Via: yourprops.com
Robin Wauters / The Next Web:
Instagram outrage?  Other apps that have ‘plunged’: Yahoo Social Bar, Pinterest, FarmVille, Spotify, Zoosk ...  Instagram users are “outraged over new rules” and dumping the service en masse, the New York Post claims, backed by data from AppData.  —  Instagram “may have shed nearly a quarter …
Reuters:
Analysis: For tech investors, it's hard to know when to bolt  —  (Reuters) - When Hewlett-Packard Co agreed to buy British software company Autonomy in August last year for $11.1 billion, two well-known investors made diametrically different bets on how the big deal would play out.
John Koetsier / VentureBeat:
For every 100 web pageviews on an iPad, a Kindle gets 5, a Galaxy gets 3, and a Surface gets 0.22  —  Non-iPad web traffic is growing, but it's still a tiny fraction of what Apple's iconic tablet pulls in.  —  Advertising and analytics company Chitika released its December 2012 tablet market update …
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
Adding 415 apps daily, Windows 8 blows past the 35,000 app milestone  —  Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system now has a total of 35,0000 applications in its Store, according to tracking website MetroStore Scanner.  —  The total tally, 35,167, represents a growth of 14,557 in the last 35 days …
Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:
Here come the design patents: new law boosts rights in shapes, designs  —  One of Apple's key weapons in its legal battle against competitors is a special type of patent that protects the visual appearance of a product.  Critics have denounced these patents as a way to own “rounded rectangles” …
Jamie Rigg / Engadget:
‘Leaked’ BlackBerry 10 info shows video chat and screen sharing in BBM, new task manager  —  Top dog at RIM Thorsten Heins heavily implied that video chat would be added to BBM when BlackBerry 10 showed up, and now possible confirmation of the feature has come from what are thought to be leaked presentation slides.

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